by - October 3, 2016 8:19 pm
Pedestrians on foot and riding bikes will have an easier time traversing across Arkansas State University in the near future. Arkansas State University received a $500,000 grant from the Arkansas…
by - October 3, 2016 7:20 pm
American Trucking Associations President Chris Spear said Monday that “extreme ideology” in Washington D.C., and a “thou shalt not compromise” mentality hurt the industry and the country. Arkansas Trucking Association…
by - October 3, 2016 7:05 pm
Backers of an amendment that would grant constitutional authorization to three casinos failed to collect enough signatures to qualify for an initial “cure period,” according to a report released Monday…
by - October 3, 2016 4:35 pm
The House and Senate Education Committees voted to add $30 million over two years to a fund for “catastrophic” special education needs as it prepares the adequacy report that will…
by - October 2, 2016 8:37 am
Arkansas Senate President Jonathan Dismang, R-Searcy, said it’s too early in the pre-session process to predict how large of a tax cut may be pushed in the next General Assembly,…
by - October 1, 2016 6:44 am
TV PREVIEW On this week’s TV edition of Talk Business & Politics, which airs Sundays at 9:30 a.m. on KATV Channel 7 in Central Arkansas and in Northeast Arkansas on…
by - September 30, 2016 5:35 pm
Democrat Conner Eldridge and Libertarian Frank Gilbert see different threats as the biggest one facing the United States. For Eldridge, “radical and radicalized individuals and groups” such as radical Islamists…
by - September 30, 2016 11:11 am
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday (Sept. 30) appointed five agency heads to coordinate and create an action plan for protecting the Buffalo River, though he said it’s not a regulatory…
by - September 29, 2016 5:56 pm
Jonesboro city employees have petitioned elected officials for years to raise their salaries, and it’s turned into a key issue in the 2016 mayoral election. Six candidates, including incumbent Mayor…
by - September 29, 2016 4:48 pm
Questions hitting the inbox in recent days and weeks have sought opinion on protest by anthem kneeling and amazing depths of Wells Fargo thievery. Let’s throw some marijuana in for…
by - September 29, 2016 2:48 pm
The third and final estimate for real gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter showed the U.S. economy was not as lethargic as first expected as consumer spending picked…
by - September 28, 2016 6:26 pm
Arkansas’ position remained unchanged in a highly-watched annual ranking of the states with the nation’s “most competitive” tax codes, according to the State Business Tax Climate Index released Wednesday (Sept….
by - September 28, 2016 5:27 pm
Optimism about the state’s near-term economic outlook for the remainder of 2016 has “improved appreciably” over the past three months, according to the Federal Reserve’s Burgundy Book survey for the…
by - September 28, 2016 4:56 pm
Fort Smith city employees are facing a potential overhaul of the Employee Education Assistance and Reimbursement program, and it could get contentious. At the Tuesday, Sept. 27, study session, City…
by - September 28, 2016 4:16 pm
A special master tasked with making a report in a lawsuit on a proposed medical tort reform amendment wrote Wednesday (Sept. 28) that all its petition signatures potentially could be…
by - September 28, 2016 4:01 pm
Passage of voter-initiated acts to legalize medical marijuana would make it difficult for employers to maintain safe, drug-free workplaces and would harm Arkansas’ economic development efforts, Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Lt….
by - September 28, 2016 3:32 pm
Second quarter personal income in Arkansas grew at a rate slightly better than the rest of the nation as total compensation for workers and households remains at nearly the same…
by - September 28, 2016 2:02 pm
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced Tuesday (Sept. 28) that 12 metropolitan areas across the country will be redesignated as “Manufacturing Communities” through 2018 as a part of the…
by - September 27, 2016 7:55 pm
Presidents fail because they are too busy speaking and don’t focus enough on the government they run, said the woman who created and managed President Clinton’s “Reinventing Government” project. Elaine…
by - September 27, 2016 7:03 pm
The full bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments Wednesday (Sept. 27) on the far-reaching federal Clean Power Plan as opponents and supporters…
